CPP will boycott April 17 commemoration (1)
As in previous years, the ruling Cambodian People's Party (CPP) will ignore April 17 as if it were an ordinary day. On April 17, 1975, the Khmer Rouge led by Pol Pot seized power in Phnom Penh and started to kill some 1.7 million people over a period of less than four years. From 1979 until the late 1980's, the CPP, whose top leaders were Khmer Rouge high-ranking apparatchiks, used to celebrate April 17 as their Victory Day, accusing their brother-in-crime Pol Pot of betraying the communist Revolution.
This year, as in previous years, only the opposition Sam Rainsy Party will officially mourn the mass killings that started on April 17, 1975. To most of the Cambodian people, April 17 is synonymous with national disaster and human tragedy. As in previous years, the commemoration will take place at the Choeung Ek Genocidal Center, near Phnom Penh, at 9:00 AM. This year, the commemoration will be of a much larger scale to coincide with the formation and the subsequent paralysis of the Khmer Rouge Tribunal.
Ranariddh kingmaker in 34 communes (1)
Even though the Norodom Ranariddh Party (NRP) has won no commune chief positions at the April 1, 2007 local election (they secured only 415 commune councilor positions versus 7,987 for the CPP and 2,671 for the Sam Rainsy Party), they will play the kingmaker role in 34 communes where the corresponding commune councils are evenly split between the CPP and the SRP. Typical example: In Kchao commune, Kang Meas district, Kompong Cham province, there are 4 councilors from the CPP, 4 from the SRP and 1 from the NRP.
Insidious corruption in Government and NGOs: OSJI exposes the Cambodian disease (2)
It is easy to understand why the Cambodian government wants to get rid of the Open Society Justice Initiative (OSJI), a US-based legal group that has publicized cases of financial malpractice at the Khmer Rouge Tribunal, by expelling them from Cambodia. The OSJI has exposed insidious forms of corruption in Cambodia, in both government and non-government organizations, that no international audit ordered by donor countries has ever been able to expose. In a country plagued with rampant corruption like Cambodia, where everything is paid in cash either over or under the table, it is common to see suppliers issuing inflated bills and giving kickbacks to individuals who, on behalf of the Government or NGOs, have purchased goods and services from them. It is also common to see employees giving back a portion of their salaries every month to individuals who have recruited them on behalf of the Government or NGOs and asked them to be "grateful".
Hun Sen protects Kem Sokha (2)
While ordering the Court to be tough against Prince Norodom Ranariddh, who was sentenced in March 2007 to 18 months in prison and to pay 150,000 dollars to the Funcinpec party on breach of trust charges, Prime Minister Hun Sen has instructed the same Court to temporarily shelve Kem Sokha's case. The President of the US-funded Cambodian Center for Human Rights (CCHR), who is to leave his position by the end of this month to form a political party in May 2007, should normally face prosecution following embezzlement and corruption lawsuits filed against him by 16 former CCHR employees who accuse him of diverting CCHR funds and stealing their salaries (see news above: " Insidious corruption in Government and NGOs"). Kem Sokha has never accepted to meet his former colleagues or to answer any of their questions. By protecting Kem Sokha, Hun Sen wants to encourage the former Son Sann Party Secretary-General and former Funcinpec Senator to create a new political party so as to split Cambodia's democratic forces. By continuously threatening to use the Court to crackdown on his actual and potential opponents, Hun Sen will be able to control Kem Sokha, whom he actually holds hostage. Current Funcinpec leaders including Nhiek Bun Chhay and You Hockry, who are facing numerous potential criminal lawsuits, are also being held hostage by Hun Sen.
As in previous years, the ruling Cambodian People's Party (CPP) will ignore April 17 as if it were an ordinary day. On April 17, 1975, the Khmer Rouge led by Pol Pot seized power in Phnom Penh and started to kill some 1.7 million people over a period of less than four years. From 1979 until the late 1980's, the CPP, whose top leaders were Khmer Rouge high-ranking apparatchiks, used to celebrate April 17 as their Victory Day, accusing their brother-in-crime Pol Pot of betraying the communist Revolution.
This year, as in previous years, only the opposition Sam Rainsy Party will officially mourn the mass killings that started on April 17, 1975. To most of the Cambodian people, April 17 is synonymous with national disaster and human tragedy. As in previous years, the commemoration will take place at the Choeung Ek Genocidal Center, near Phnom Penh, at 9:00 AM. This year, the commemoration will be of a much larger scale to coincide with the formation and the subsequent paralysis of the Khmer Rouge Tribunal.
Ranariddh kingmaker in 34 communes (1)
Even though the Norodom Ranariddh Party (NRP) has won no commune chief positions at the April 1, 2007 local election (they secured only 415 commune councilor positions versus 7,987 for the CPP and 2,671 for the Sam Rainsy Party), they will play the kingmaker role in 34 communes where the corresponding commune councils are evenly split between the CPP and the SRP. Typical example: In Kchao commune, Kang Meas district, Kompong Cham province, there are 4 councilors from the CPP, 4 from the SRP and 1 from the NRP.
Insidious corruption in Government and NGOs: OSJI exposes the Cambodian disease (2)
It is easy to understand why the Cambodian government wants to get rid of the Open Society Justice Initiative (OSJI), a US-based legal group that has publicized cases of financial malpractice at the Khmer Rouge Tribunal, by expelling them from Cambodia. The OSJI has exposed insidious forms of corruption in Cambodia, in both government and non-government organizations, that no international audit ordered by donor countries has ever been able to expose. In a country plagued with rampant corruption like Cambodia, where everything is paid in cash either over or under the table, it is common to see suppliers issuing inflated bills and giving kickbacks to individuals who, on behalf of the Government or NGOs, have purchased goods and services from them. It is also common to see employees giving back a portion of their salaries every month to individuals who have recruited them on behalf of the Government or NGOs and asked them to be "grateful".
Hun Sen protects Kem Sokha (2)
While ordering the Court to be tough against Prince Norodom Ranariddh, who was sentenced in March 2007 to 18 months in prison and to pay 150,000 dollars to the Funcinpec party on breach of trust charges, Prime Minister Hun Sen has instructed the same Court to temporarily shelve Kem Sokha's case. The President of the US-funded Cambodian Center for Human Rights (CCHR), who is to leave his position by the end of this month to form a political party in May 2007, should normally face prosecution following embezzlement and corruption lawsuits filed against him by 16 former CCHR employees who accuse him of diverting CCHR funds and stealing their salaries (see news above: " Insidious corruption in Government and NGOs"). Kem Sokha has never accepted to meet his former colleagues or to answer any of their questions. By protecting Kem Sokha, Hun Sen wants to encourage the former Son Sann Party Secretary-General and former Funcinpec Senator to create a new political party so as to split Cambodia's democratic forces. By continuously threatening to use the Court to crackdown on his actual and potential opponents, Hun Sen will be able to control Kem Sokha, whom he actually holds hostage. Current Funcinpec leaders including Nhiek Bun Chhay and You Hockry, who are facing numerous potential criminal lawsuits, are also being held hostage by Hun Sen.
15 comments:
To the person who wrote this article,
Don't you feel ashame of what you're doing now? I'm not writing to explain anything. Therefore, no need to send your friends to add any comment against this comment. I'm just writing to tell you that Cambodia is facing a huge problem, and that problem is you and other people like you.
***I don't have much time to comment on your stupid articles, so if anyone wants to say any bad things about people like Mr. Kem Sokha on this stupid website, go ahead. You know people who have a real job don't have that much time to comment on this article every time (maybe once in awhile but not every time).
To 1:27AM from someone who knows very well Mr. Kem Sokha,
Are you afraid of the truth? It looks like you are because you call peolpe telling the truth stupid. Our 2nd question to you is this: Do you know that the truth never lied? If you don't, you are stupid yourself.
The party supported by Hun sen(CPP: Communist Pro youn Party), will be the weak party
Hun Sen win win strategies:
- Spliting his opponents through money-buying, nortorios lawsuit court and intimindation..etc
- Split as much as possible the democratic activists
- Use the method of Carrot and Stick
Etc
Khem Sokha is actually in the abyse of terror through Hun Sen's tactics. But Khem Sokha has two choices: to choose Hun Sen's money and help or choose democratic movement?
Khem Sokha's politic career will be finished if he choose money or help from Hun Sen, especially money from CPP has bullet and poison in it in killing people.
it is truth to say that Kim Sokha is Hun Sen's hostage to split democratist while they try to unite a National Coalition.
Really, Kim Sokha rule his Organization with corruption. I knew beacause Dotor. Chim Phal Varon is a son of my father's friend-is a teacher in a high school in Phnom Penh. My father was very surprise when Dr.CPVR's father told him.
now it will be truth if Kem Sokha is absent in new national coalition.
it is truth to say that Kim Sokha is Hun Sen's hostage to split democratist while they try to unite a National Coalition.
Really, Kim Sokha rule his Organization with corruption. I knew beacause Dotor. Chim Phal Varon is a son of my father's friend-is a teacher in a high school in Phnom Penh. My father was very surprise when Dr.CPVR's father told him.
now it will be truth if Kem Sokha is absent in new national coalition.
WTF? Recently before the election,
you idiots praised Sokha, and now
he's corrupted and CPP puppet...?
And don't denied this either, I am
sure your comments are still in KI
Media and elsewhere.
So then, if not Sokha, who will be
your winning candidate for the
2008 big election? Don't tell
me out of more than half million
from oversea, you don't have any
except for Sam Rainsy the loser
who know nothing about winning
except for losing.
Hey 5:28 AM remember 1993 election I thought you and your Yuons friend were the biggest loser. LOL some loser can't take it and they resort to civil war threat, what a fucking blind idiot. Get a life hypocrite and some hypocrite are in the blood line from the Ho land. LOL some Yuons are so dump even if they got PhD.
Yeah, I remember the 1993's
election, people voted for
Sihanouk and he won, but Sihanouk
can't govern, and Ranarith can't
just take Sihanouk place by
himself, dude. We'll never going
to allowed that. He must share power
willfully or will make him share
it by force. You don't think for
a moment that you space-aged idiots
could fools the old fashion people
like us (Khmers), do ya?
Furthermore there is no such thing
as a dumb yuons. You must have pull
that one out of your arse, and
you know better, right?
8:31 AM you are a fucking loser that what it is ok. You Khmer? hahahaah I always know you are Xmer brother. Don't thing Khmer is fool by you Xmer idiot. There is a dumb Yuons and right now you are one of it LOL you didn't see it? my god how pathetic is that?
8:31 AM, YOU AND YIOUR ASSHOLE YUON HUN SHIT MAKING ALL KHMER WHOLE NATION BECOME LOSERS, YOU FUXXIN WINNERS, HAPPY NOW ?
To the guy to claimed to know Chim Pavarun, did you know that he is the advisor to CPP's parliamentarian Ing Bun Huv, the guy who robbed the people when needed to use the public national road 4 built with the American Money?
Did you know that as the president of the German-Cambodian Association (now dead thanks to CPR), Chim did not allowed the auditor sent by the German Donor to audit? Ask member of the Association or even the German Ambassador! According the german diplomats and Cambodian from Germany, Chim is a crook!
Did you know that Chim has many wives? and yeah grope on beer girls right in the public?
Did you know that Chim is a former advisor to the government and still is? Because of the life style (of beer and girls) did you know he is willing to do many things? (has done)
Did you know that none of friends in school with him in Germany are taking with him?
Did you know he did not work for almost two years? ever wonder why he can not find work? Ever wonder how he can still afford beer and girls?
Do you need more on how credible this guy is? For a person who know the father of his father, I think you ought to hold your horse a little and try to learn more before jumping so quickly to conclusion!
Hey, if the guy stole the people
moneys, he will be busted soon or
later. What is with the rush and
shit? In case you don't know, we
are on a shoes string budget here,
and we're still begging for money,
remember?
Who destroyed Cambodia neutrality?!
Who care about neutrality, you
fool?
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